Camille Bohannon

May 20, 1927

Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 – August 22, 1965)

The first female flight attendant was a 25-year-old registered nurse from Iowa 
Cresco, the manager of the San Francisco  office Boing Air Transport, would
not hire her as a pilot, but did pass along her suggestion to put nurses on
board airplanes to help calm those with the fear of flying. Church was hired
in 1930 as head stewardess, and recruited seven others for a three-month
trial period.The job was one of only a few in the 1930s to permit women,

Camille Bohannon

Burt Freeman Bacharach is celebrating birthday 86 today

Sandy Kozel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is 65 today. He was a boxer before fame,
winning twenty-two bouts in the amateur Golden Gloves circuit.

Major Howard “Scrappy” Johnson (above) set a world altitude record, when 
he reached 91,243 feet, flying a Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter, from Edwards
AFB in California. In recognition of the record, then Vice President Richard
M. Nixon presented him with the Robert J. Collier trophy for aeronautical
achievement.